• Playful Pastimes: 1890 to 1910

    Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

    Playful Pastimes: 1890 to 1910, explores the many aspects of leisure during the turn of the 19th century. The first of two World Wars, women's suffrage, the Spanish Flu outbreak ...

    $5 – $7
  • Destination Westport: In Gatsby’s Shoes

    Longshore Mariana 260 Compo Rd S, Westport, Connecticut, United States

    Step Into the Roaring Twenties: Fitzgerald’s Summer in Westport – A Tour Like No Other!  Picture this: It’s the summer of 1920, and Westport, a quiet farm town, becomes the ...

    $25
  • Destination Westport: In Gatsby’s Shoes

    Longshore Mariana 260 Compo Rd S, Westport, Connecticut, United States

    Step Into the Roaring Twenties: Fitzgerald’s Summer in Westport – A Tour Like No Other!  Picture this: It’s the summer of 1920, and Westport, a quiet farm town, becomes the ...

    $25
  • Destination Westport: In Gatsby’s Shoes

    Longshore Mariana 260 Compo Rd S, Westport, Connecticut, United States

    Step Into the Roaring Twenties: Fitzgerald’s Summer in Westport – A Tour Like No Other!  Picture this: It’s the summer of 1920, and Westport, a quiet farm town, becomes the ...

    $25
  • Destination Westport: In Gatsby’s Shoes

    Longshore Mariana 260 Compo Rd S, Westport, Connecticut, United States

    Step Into the Roaring Twenties: Fitzgerald’s Summer in Westport – A Tour Like No Other!  Picture this: It’s the summer of 1920, and Westport, a quiet farm town, becomes the ...

    $25
  • Free First Saturdays

    First Saturdays are a great opportunity to experience what we have to offer at the Westport Museum free of charge on the first Saturday of each month.  Young visitors can ...

  • Turnip Carving Workshop

    Turnip Carving Workshop: The Original Jack-o’-LanternBefore pumpkins lit up porches, turnips were the true stars of Halloween! In Ireland and Scotland, people once carved spooky faces into turnips to ward ...

    $10 – $15
  • Destination Westport: Westport Sanitarium

    Winslow Dog Park 25 CT-136, Westport, Connecticut, United States

    This Halloween season, dare to uncover the chilling past of Westport’s lost sanitariums, where heartbreak, psychological control, and eerie medical practices once thrived. Though the buildings have vanished, the spirits ...

    $10 – $15
  • Destination Westport: Saugatuck Stories

    Saugatuck Train Station 1 Railroad Pl, Westport, Connecticut, United States

    Explore the Hidden Stories of Saugatuck!  Join us for a fascinating one-mile walking tour through Saugatuck, located at the mouth of the Saugatuck River and Long Island Sound. Discover the ...

    $10 – $15
  • Darkness: Experience CT’s Witch Panic

    Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

    Darkness, Inside the Mind of Connecticut’s Witches is a unique Halloween experience. Enter 1647 and witness the witch trials that European colonists experienced through their own words, in the darkness ...

    $10 – $15
  • StoryFest–POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 30

    StoryFest is everywhere on Saturday morning, starting at the Westport Museum for History & Culture!  StoryFest Saturday morning kicks off with spooky storytelling for the whole family at the Westport ...


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Past Events

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